TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO N. N. VASHKOV

Dictated:Dictated by phone on August i, 1921Published:First published in 1921 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

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ComradeVashkov, Electrical Department, S.E.C.Copy to Comrade Krzhizhanovsky

Ithank you very much for the article, “Electrification
of Russia” inEkonomicheskaya Zhiznof
10/VII.[1]

Itis highly important that such information should
appear inEkonomicheskaya Zhiznand in the popular press
from time to time. If you happen to have it, please send
me the following additional information: 1) your table
shows the electric-power station capacity in 1920 as being
7,670 kw. Does this include Shatura’s 5,000 kw?

2)Yourarticle shows that in 1920 the Tula group
yielded 3,000 kw. Is that reflected in the table, or is such
information not included?

3)Isit possible to bring out the larger stations which
are of real industrial importance, say, those of 1,000 kw
or those of a size which could be classed as large and which
are of importance to industry?

4)Forhow many months of 1921 do you have
consolidated tables in which 1921 is shown at all?

5)Doyou happen to have any details on the early
stages of organisation of the Shterovka, Ivanovo-Voznesensk,
Nizhni-Novgorod and Chelyabinsk stations?

6)Yourarticle says that the combination of several
large stations could give Moscow 10,000 kw. Please let me
know whether it has actually done so, exactly how much
and when?

7)Couldyou let me have some details about the power
stations in Bolshevo district, near Mytishchi, and the
Detskoye Selo station, which supplies Petrograd, and more
exact information about the time of their expected
completion?

Pleaselet me know also whether the forthcoming
Electro-technical Congress in
October[2]could be used to collect
fuller and more precise information about all the existing
electro-technical stations, their distribution by uyezd and
gubernia, the time of their establishment, the number ofstations being used to teach electricity and electrification,
etc.

[1]Inthe article referred to, N. N. Vashkov gave a short review of
what had been done in the sphere of electrification, giving a table
to show the growth of urban and rural electric-power stations
from 1917 to 1921. He also spoke of the work started locally to
explore the power resources and the requirements in the
electrification.

[2]Areference to theEighth All-Russia Electrotechnical Congress,
which was called on Lenin’s initiative in pursuance of the
resolution of the Eighth Congress of Soviets, to hold a comprehensive
discussion of technical and economic problems connected with
the implementation of the GOELRO plan. Before the congress,
a telegram was sent to all the Gubernia Executive Committees
instructing their electrical departments to send in, with their
delegates, information about all the existing electric-power stations
(see this volume, Document 327).